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1 It was not a face in its first bloom; she was a woman five and thirty years of age.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
2 With a gentleness that was as natural to him as he knew it to be to Rachael, he pursued the subject that interested her in her old age.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
3 Then I became a young vagabond; and instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
4 Publicly and privately, it were much better for the age in which he lived, that he and the legion of whom he was one were designedly bad, than indifferent and purposeless.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
5 Mr. Gradgrind usually improved these occasions by remarking, when she was gone, that if Jupe had been properly trained from an early age she would have remonstrated to herself on sound principles the baselessness of these fantastic hopes.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
6 I find, on reference to the figures, that a large proportion of these marriages are contracted between parties of very unequal ages, and that the elder of these contracting parties is, in rather more than three-fourths of these instances, the bridegroom.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
7 What harmony, besides her age and her simplicity, surrounded her, he did not know, but even in this fantastic action there was a something neither out of time nor place: a something which it seemed as if nobody else could have made as serious, or done with such a natural and touching air.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII